Overalls.



No. H7392.

Patented Dec. 30, |902. l L. A. GUITERMAN.

D V E R A L L S.

fppljcation led Aug. 7, 1902.)

2 Sheets-Sheet (No Model.)

UNITED *raras arent Prion,

LEOPOLD A- GUITERMAN, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

ovERALLs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,392, dated DeCembeI 30, 1902- p Application led August 7, 1902. Serial No. 1181811. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern;

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD A. GUITER- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Overalls, of which the following is a specification, accompanied by drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in that garmentv commonly called overalls; and the object of my invention is to improve upon such overalls heretofore placed upon the n market.

My invention is more particularly an improvement on the overalls shown and described in United States Patent No. 328,025,

`Suspenders may be readily detached and used as a belt, the bib or apron then dropping down in front over the belt and being provided with a pocket or any desired number of pockets, which are handy for tools, nails, and other paraphernalia and uses.

Other objectsof my invention will hereinafter appear; and to these ends my invention consists in a garment with attachments therefor for carrying out the above objects con-V structed and arranged substantially as hereinafter fully described, and shown in this specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a rear View of a pair of overalls embodying my invention, showing the suspenders attached thereto.V Fig. 2 is a front view of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of one of the adjusting-buckles of the Suspenders. FigiE shows in front and side view the combination button-loop and hook used on the Suspenders. Fig. 5 is a front view of the cooperating hook and loop at the backstrap, the hook and loop being shown in engagement with each other and locked together. Fig. 6 is another view of the said hook and loop, showing the loop about to be engaged 0r disengaged from the hook. Fig. 7 is a front iview ot the overalls with the Suspenders used as a belt and the bib or apron folded down in front over the waist, and Fig. Sis an enlarged detail view of the Suspenders or shoulder- `straps opened out in the form of a belt and vshowing the means for securing thekends to each other.

Referring to the drawings, the main portion of the overalls A may be made in any isuitable and usual manner `for strength and .,durability, asshown, in this instance the waist portions being slit at the sides and there being a suitable pocket B behind and `pockets C and D in front, of which there may be any desired number arranged in any convenient manner. The slit portionsat the jsides are provided, as shown, with buttons a and buttonholes b for securing thebverlap- `ping portions at the slit.

In this instance the overalls are shown provided with a bib or apron E, which 'is provided with means for attaching Suspenders thereto, while means are also provided at the "back of the waist portion of the overalls for `with the portions e extending across the waist portion of the overalls at the rear and secured thereto by lines of stitching or othersuitable means, leaving loops f in the back-strap between the strap and the body of theoveralls for the insertion of a belt when a belt isused to support the gar-ment from the waist. Aecording to my invention the back-strap is folded upon itself to form a loop for the reception of a suspending device with the two portions ediverging from each other,as shown in theudrawings, and each portion being secured to the overalls on separated and substantially parallel lines, whereby the loops f, referred to, are formed by the strap portions and the body of the overalls for .the `reception of a belt. Each portion is secured at its end to the overalls, and each portion of the strap, as shown, is additionally secured to the overalls on a line remote from its end to form the loopsf. A suitable device (shown in this instance as a loop) is secured Within the fold d .of the back-strap in any suitable manner, as by means of stitching.

Suitable Suspenders or shoulder-Straps G are provided for the overalls, and when the garmentis to be supported from the shoulders the Suspenders or shoulder-straps G are attached to the buttons c on the bib and to the attaching device on the back-strap, as shown, in this instance the Suspenders having elastic portions g for convenience and comfort in wearin g, and they are also provided with adjusting devices, as shown in Fig. 3, for adjusting the length of the shoulder-straps.

Vhile these adjusting devices may be of any suitable character, in this instance they are shown as buckles Il, over the central portions of which are looped the ends 71, of the suspenders, while the main portion of the suspenders passes through the buckle, as at t', in

anysuitable manner,whereby the buckle mayv be slipped along the shoulderstrapmhe downwardly-projecting ingersj serving to maintain the buckle in anydesired position. The Suspenders or shoulder-straps G are so con- Structed that they may be formed into a belt and secured about the waist tosnpport the overalls from the waist. In order that the Suspenders may be used as a belt, they must be capable of being opened out into a Substantially straight line when detached from the overalls, as shown more particularly in Fig. S, and one way of accomplishing this end is to form the Suspenders of a strip of material folded diagonally upon itself, as at K, Fig. 8, the loop 7c, which is formed thereby, being suitable for the attachment of a device Z (shown in the form of a hook) for securing the Suspenders to the baclcstrap. Each end o and 29 should also be provided with means for securing the Suspenders about the waist, as a belt, in this instance one end as o, being provided with a button-loop Q, and the other end p being provided with a combination button-loop and hook r, so that in supporting the garment from the shoulders the loop g and the loop portion of the combination device r may be looped over the buttons c on the bib; but when the Suspenders are used as a belt the loop q coperates with the hook s of the combination device r, so that the belt may betightly secured about the waist, as shown more particularly in Fig. 7, in which case the belt is passed beneath the loops f, formed by the back-strap, and beneath suitable belt-loops p at the front or sides of the garment for keeping the belt in place. When the Suspenders are used as a belt, the bib or apron Eis adapted to be folded outwardly and downwardly over the belt, as shown in Fig. 7, thereby forming a iiap provided with pocketsQ, of which there may be any desired number. This form of overalls supported from the waist by a belt and provided with an apron having pockets is especially convenient and desirable in certain classes of work,

and also in' hot weather it is frequently found cooler to support the garment from the waist by means of a belt rather than from the Shoulders by Suspenders, which contine the clothes of the wearer tightly against the body and conduce to heating.

In the work of the machinist or laborer the body naturally assumes many and various diiferent positions, and it is not uncommon to have the suspenders slip from thesecuring devices at the rear, as at the back-strap. As shown in the drawings, I prevent the suspenders slipping or becoming undone at the rear by means of a hook and loop, which lock together when Secured in position and which must be moved or twisted relatively to each other in such manner as to unlock them, for they cannot become unlocked in any of the positions assumed by the machinist at his work. The construction of this hook and loop is shown more particularlyfin Figs. 5 and 6, and it will be seen thatafter the loop R is passed over the hook S and pulled down to the position shown in Fig. 5 a mere upwardyand-downward movement of the loop will not serve to remove it from the hook, one reason being that the loop is narrower than the top of the hook. It is therefore necessary in order to remove the loop from the hook to carry the loop upwardly and in a sidewise direction, as shown in Fig. 6, in order to pass it over the hook.

Obviously my invention may be embodied in widely-varying forms and some parts of my invention may be used without others.

Therefore without limiting myself to the construction shown and described nor enumerating equivalents, what I claim, and desire to obtain by Letters Patent, is-

l. A pair of overalls provided with a backstrap folded upon itself to form a loop for the reception of a suspending device, the two por#` tions of the loop diverging from each other, and each portion being secured To the overalls on separated and substantially parallel lines, whereby loops are formed by the two strap portions and the body of the overalls for the reception of a belt, su bstantially as set forth.

2. A pair of overalls provided with a backstrap folded upon itself to form a loop for the reception of a suspending device, the two portions ot the loop diverging from each other and each portion being secured at its end to the overalls, and each portion being additionally Secured to the overalls on a line remote from its ends, whereby the loops f are formed between the strap and the body of the overalls for the reception of a belt.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses.

LEOPOLD A. GUITERMAN.

Vitnesses:

FRANCIS T. GRIBBINS, MILTON S. GUITERMAN. A

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